SOURCE:

Faculty: Social Sciences
Department: Psychology

CONTRIBUTORS:

Etodike, C. E.
Chine, B. C
Ezeh, L. N.

ABSTRACT:

This study examined organizational cynicism, work-overload, and pay satisfaction as predictors of workers’ frustration, and work-family conflict among academic staff of Nigerian federal universities. The participants were 769 lecturers whose ages ranged from 27 to 69 years with a mean age of 49.46 years and standard deviation of 8.6. The study adopted correlation design using hierarchical linear regression statistic to test the hypotheses using two regression models. The result indicated that there were significant correlations among the variables which necessitated testing for predictive effects. Analysis of the Beta coefficient showed that the predictors - organizational cynicism and work overload positively and significantly predicted workers’ frustration at β = .40* and .57*, p < .05 (n = 769) respectively whereas pay satisfaction negatively and significantly predicted workers’ frustration at β = -.27*, p < .05 (n = 769). In the second model, only organizational cynicism, and work overload positively and significantly predicted work-family conflict at β = .25, and .45, p < .05 (n = 769) respectively. Also, positive and significant correlation was confirmed between workers’ frustration and work-family conflict at r(1, 769) = .627**, p < .01. It is recommended that the employers of the academic staff of ..Federal Universities make concerted effort to implement the backlog of policies aimed at improving conditions of service and workers’ welfare which will likely improve organizational effectiveness.